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# Notes on product, sales, and agent work

Notes from building Luminik and earlier products: product decisions, sales calls, agent workflows, event pipeline systems, and zero-to-one work. 

Solo builder OS 

## Alfred: how I run repeated work as a solo founder

How I use Alfred to turn repeated company work into plans, summaries, draft replies, and pull requests I can review before anything ships.

[Start here ](/blog/alfred-solo-founder-operating-system.html) 

**Context** CLAUDE.md files, specs, voice rules, and public positioning. 

**Work** Digests with links, pull requests, draft copy, and drift checks. 

**Gate** Human approval before publish, merge, send, or deploy. 

[ Solo builder OS Alfred: how I run repeated work as a solo founder How I use Alfred to turn repeated company work into plans, summaries, draft replies, and pull requests I can review before anything ships.  May 2026  16 min read ](/blog/alfred-solo-founder-operating-system.html)[ Solo builder OS Separating agent work from founder work Why I moved recurring agent work out of my daily workspace, what the boundary controls, and which approvals still stay with me.  Apr 2026  11 min read ](/blog/dedicated-mac-mini-solo-startup.html)[ Solo builder OS gstack, CLAUDE.md, and founder coordination gstack formalizes role-based agent work. The harder part is still product rules, cross-session context, and isolated branches.  Mar 2026  13 min read ](/blog/gstack-solo-builder.html)[ Solo builder OS The real cost of solo product engineering in 2026 The tools got cheaper and faster. The harder work is still product direction, instruction files, review, and knowing what needs a human decision.  Feb 2026  15 min read ](/blog/building-alone-in-2026.html)[ Founder-led sales Selling the workflow before the software I delivered Luminik manually before building the product surface. That work showed which event workflows repeated and which steps belonged in software.  Feb 2026  10 min read ](/blog/selling-before-building.html)[ Event pipeline Event ROI is a handoff problem Event ROI breaks when attendee, outreach, booth, and CRM evidence split apart. The fix starts with one event record through every handoff.  Jan 2026  11 min read ](/blog/event-marketing-roi.html)[ Customer discovery SnowOptix: the side project that led to Luminik SnowOptix started as a real Snowflake cost tool. The customer conversations mattered more than the tool and led me toward Luminik.  Dec 2025  9 min read ](/blog/snowflake-cost-optimization.html)[ Founder-led sales Technical founders sell through diagnosis Technical founders sell well when discovery starts as diagnosis: understand the workflow, explain tradeoffs, and say what the product can and cannot do.  Nov 2025  11 min read ](/blog/technical-founder-sales.html)[ Zero to one Building a $3.6M ARR product inside Bain Aura reached $3.6M ARR inside Bain in 18 months. The useful lesson is which constraints helped, which slowed us down, and why.  Oct 2025  13 min read ](/blog/zero-to-one-bain.html)[ Fundraising What fundraising asks of a CTO What I had to make clear as CTO during an early raise: product evidence, demos, investor fit, diligence, and keeping sales learning alive.  Sep 2025  9 min read ](/blog/raising-seed-round.html)[ Zero to one How to build the first version of a startup product A practical lesson from Mainteny: pick one market, make one daily workflow work, sell while building, and keep the stack easy to change.  Aug 2025  9 min read ](/blog/mvp-three-months.html) 

[ Solo builder OS Alfred, CLAUDE.md files, isolated branches, approval rules, and the recurring checks I run while building Luminik. ](/blog/alfred-solo-founder-operating-system.html)[ Founder-led sales Sales starts by understanding how the buyer does the work today. Useful before hiring a sales motion. ](/blog/selling-before-building.html)[ Event pipeline How event ROI breaks across handoffs, and why the answer starts with one event operating record. ](/blog/event-marketing-roi.html)[ Zero to one Mainteny, Aura, SnowOptix, and the product decisions that changed what I built next. ](/blog/mvp-three-months.html)